Author: Books Bites Brews

I’ve finally earned my Juris Doctor degree. I also have the privilege and honor of graduating law school in the same year that my younger brother obtained his BS in Architecture and my little sister her high school diploma. Thus,...

For the past several years, The Brewmaster’s Table has been the must-read tome when it comes to increasing one’s knowledge of true beer, its appreciation, and its interplay with cuisine. Last year, another book was published, The Oxford Guide to...

The Shake Shack, which is pretty much the east coast’s counterpart to In-n-Out, is known to serve a monster of a burger called the Shack Stack: it’s a beef patty topped with a deep-fried, cheese-stuffed, panko-crusted portobello mushroom patty. Since...

I’ve always wanted to try doing my own sous vide hack. My go-to food website, Serious Eats, suggests using a beer cooler, but I saw something much smaller but just as useful at home. It was a rice cooker-like device...

Given that it’s the Holy Week, when half the Philippines goes to Church and the other half goes on vacation, I decided to strike a balance of sorts and write about a beer style that is in keeping with the...